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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,066, dated.September'29, 190B. lApplioatiou tiled December 4. 1902, Serial No.133,934. (No model.) A

To alZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK LESLIE WEB- STER, a citizen of the Dominion ofCanada, residing at Waialua, Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii,` haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Conveyingand 'Loading Crops and Merchandise; and I hereby declare the followingtobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same. Myinvention is designed principally for use on sugarplantations where main lines of railwayare established to differentpartsof the plantation with portable railway-tracks branching ci from themain lines to convey the cane when loaded on cars from the fields to thesugar factory. The present method of loading the cars is by hand, thelaborers picking up the cut cane and carryingit to and depositing it onthe car, a ladder being used to gain the top. Myinventionisintended todo away with much ,of this manual labor and without adding the expenseof laying special tracks orinterfering with the passage of canecars overthe railways. My machine is mounted on a truck to run on theplantation-rail ways and is arranged to permit of empty canecars beinghauled up an inclined track and over the platform, passing through theframework ot the machine, and down a similar inclined track on theopposite end.4 It is provided with cable-dro ms,any one of which may beconnected at the will of the operator, by means of friction-clutches,with. their shafts driven by a suitable motor, such as agasolens-engine.These drums are preferably arranged in two sets, one set for working thecables on each side of the railway and each Y set consisting of twohauling-cable drums and one hoisting-drum with brake-band. On top of theframeworkare mounted two jib-cranes for the hoisting-cables. The cutcane in the field is bundled by laborers, the bundles beinghauled bythecables toward the machine and then elevated by the hoisting-cables to asuitable height to clear and to swing over and.

be dropped in the desired' position ou the car, as will hereinafter morefullyappear.

represents a top plan View of my machine: Fig. 2 represents anendelevation ofthe same. Fig. 3 represents aside eleration of the same.-Fig. 4 represents a top `plan view of the platform of the machinemounted upon its cartruck. Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic illustration .of theapparatus, sh owing a preferred method of operating the cables.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar.'

locked in any desired position, only the working position being shown inthe several views- In transporting the machine it is turnedhori- L Inthe accompanying..drawings, Figure l.`

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table, which may be turned and wedged or zontally to a position at rightangles to that shown. Upon the platform a are laid rails forming a trackof the same gageasthe plantation-railways, from eachend of which a secward incline to connect the track on the platform with the track onwhich the-machine tion of portable track i -i extends on adown` rests.These inclined tracks are removable f and are provided with swinghiugedstruts kk', 5o. (Shownin Fi".3.)' Upon theplatform a is secured aframework a', suitably braced and of suicient height and width to permitof an empty cane-car being passed through it. Upon thisframe a' ismounted a mast c, with its step m and stii leg l sup The mast c maybeslightly iniined, as shown in Fig. 3, so thatthe cranes wiil tend toswing over the car to be loaded.v The platform a is extended outside ofthe frame a' o'n two opposite sides, one of which extensions supportsporting two booms or jiircranes b and b'.

Y the gasolene-engine or other motor r gearedl to run the drum-shafts tuand zr', and on the other extension is located a Water-tank q, which notonly tends to balance the platform, but supplies the water for coolingthe enginecylinder, the water circulating through pipingplaced above andbelow the frame a' and con nccting the tank q with the water-jacket ofthe engine g. vUpon the shaft H: are loosely mounted the hauling-cabledrums d d' and the hoisting-cable drum e, any one ofwhich may be causedto revolve with the shaft w by its friction-clutch operated by the levery, y',

or y2. (Shown in Fig. 3.) The hoisting-drum e is alsoprovided with abrakediand z. The hauling-cables from the drums cl rl' pass up over thesheaves r1" and are Vrun out and attached to the bundles of cane to bepulled toward the machine. The hoisting-cable passes 11p-from its drume. over the sheaves ni, n3, s', and n5 at the outerend of the boom` b.These drums and cables being for use on the motor side of therailway, aduplicatoarraugement is provided for working on the opposite side,

(shown in Fig. 1,) thehauling-cables from the drums d? cl3 passing overthe sheaves yn "13 and San' r2, respectively, and the hoisting-cablefrom SSV `it drum e runs overoneof thesheavesn2 then ove Akn, s, and nat the endof the boom b', s'ands being single blocks, n TLS being plainsheaves, 'r and r' being sheaves whose frames. are uio nted to turn in ahorizontal plane througnabout one hundred and eighty degreesfandpkri-audrs being similar to r, but

arrange to turn in a vertical plane. .Under r, ers of the platform a aresecured astings into which round head* ed screw-jachs fare placed tostien the platform when the. m` achine is in use. An awning t maybe-attached to the frame a." to protect themotor from the weather.(Shown in Pig. 2.) The car-truck f is provided with toggle-jointedbrakes operated by the lever c. (Shown in Fig. 4.) y i The mode ofoperation will be apparent.

vThe machine is run over the main track tothe the laborers, each slingholding several hun.

dred pounds of cane, the crane-heisting cables are used to pick up thebundies that are reasonably near the machine and raise them to asuitable height to swing clear.- ci the carstakes, aman turning andguiding the bundle, so that it may he dropped in the place and in thedirection desired on tne car.Y A

illustrated in Fig. 5.

man Aat the tag-rope attached to the end of the hoisting-cable at thesame time pulling on his rope diseugages the sling from the cane just.dropped and pulls the cable down and attaches another bundle. While thisis be: ing done a second bu ndle is being hoisted and dropped into thecar from thesecondjib-crane, these operations being repeated until thecar is loaded, whereupon the car is pushed toward the main line and anempty car run through the machine to the loading position under. thecran es. The hauling-cables at the salue time are heilig r'un out andused to draw the bundles from a distance to where they maybe reached bythe crane-cables. By

having two hauling-cables for working on each side of the railway theymaybe arranged by a rope attached to their ends passing over asnatch-block anchored in the field, so that while one cable is hauling abundle in it is at the same time pulling the other cable lout to beattached to another bundle of cane, as The machine and the cars may bemoved by means of the power from the motor on the machine.

)Vhle I have described my machine as applied to the conveying andloading of sugarcane, it will appear that it maybe applied to anysimilar crop or may beused for the loading of stone, timber, or othermerchandise.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire 'to se 'ure by Letters Patent, is C) 1.A machine for conveying and loading crops and thelike, having itsplatform mount ed upon Wheels arranged'in a circle andiaxled to theframe of its car-truck, such that the platform may be turned in ahorizontal plane thereon, an elevated frame above the plat- ICO form forsupporting at one end a nia-stand its boom, and a track on said platformhaving p inclined sections to connect with the track on which themachine rests; substantially as described.

2. A machine for conveying and lending crops and the like, having arotary platform, atrack upon saidplatiorm and inclined rails to connectsaid `platform-tracl: with the track` on which the machi\. e rests,substantially as described. i

3. A machine of the kind described, turntabled onf;` s car-truck andhaving inclined rails provi ed with hinged supports; snbstan` scribed.

hine of the kind described, having a truc-; upon which the machineistnrntabled, a car-track on its platform, inclined rails with hingedsupports and an opening`in` its frame which permits of a car beinghanled\tz5 through said frame over the track on the plat formsubstantially as described. l-

f' 740,066 3 v l 3;@ :s moor mountedvon the platform for op- Intestimony whereof IV have Signel my 'g erging the hauling and hoistingcables;`sub name t-.\th'is specification in the presence of san-aly`sdescrbed, l E two subscrhng witnesses.

EL l machine of the kind-described, llav- \\FRANK LESLIE WEBSTER. 5ing-'abe hauling-cables n pairs, such that Witnesssil @ne one of them ishauling in thema in is A. A}\Wnsox,

ai; @e same `time pulling the other cable out. THOS. SBEAEMAN. l

